Additional hangars will be available to rent in the game, but will they be available to buy? Could you buy a hangar at a much higher price and avoid paying periodic fees?
TL;DRRoberts says there are plans for both renting and buying hangars and similar real estate, modeled on a simplified real-world system where taxation may vary with how lawful the area is.
Yeah, definitely. So you'll be able to, we have plans to have the equivalent of real estate, which would be hangars, potentially a little place you could buy or rent and stuff like that. So there's sort of things that you can acquire. And so there would definitely be the renting and the buying option on those kinds of things. We're trying to go for the real world model in a simplified manner.
So the war effort goes badly and the UEE starts charging property taxes.
No, we may charge property taxes. I mean, we're going to try and simulate. So if you're in a planet that has good law and order, you have higher taxation than if you're in the pirate lands and there's no taxation. So it's sort of up to you to decide how you want to play the game. Do you want to hang out in Somalia and don't pay taxes but potentially get ripped off by a bunch of pirates? Or you want to be in the US and pay high taxes but have the police and everything else?